Kenyon College Has a Streak

Published: May 14, 1989

To the Sports Editor:

In ''Bowdoin Prepares a Travel Guide for Tourney,'' (The Times, May 2,), a piece on the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III playoffs in lacrosse, your writer stated that Hobart College ''has won the championship every season since the tournament began in 1980, an N.C.A.A. record for team sports.'' I think it is important to note the fact that my alma mater, Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, won its 10th consecutive N.C.A.A. Division III championship in men's swimming this past March. Assuming that swimming is a team sport, Hobart can only tie Kenyon's record of 10 successive N.C.A.A. championships if they win the lacrosse tournament that started on May 10. WILLIAM LIPSCOMB Princeton, N.J.